December 2023 Summaries

Sydney Cohen, CTO and Co-founder of Axolo, and Julien Danjou, CEO and Co-founder of Mergify, shared insights on optimizing development workflows in a recent webinar. They highlighted the importance of regular code reviews, diverse perspectives, focused pull requests, and automation tools like linters, CI/CD pipelines, and code coverage guidelines. Both companies aim to enhance collaboration and communication by integrating with Slack, creating dedicated channels for each GitHub pull request, and offering automated workflows and merge queues. AI in code reviews is also being explored through tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT Code Review. Overall, Axolo and Mergify provide innovative solutions to streamline software development projects.

In November 2023, Axolo released several updates and improvements. They enabled enterprise customers to add their GitHub Proxy address, added more security features around impersonation for Enterprises, and provided tips when users type LGTM in a pull request channel. Additionally, they created a service to close PR channels when the PR is closed in GitHub/GitLab, improved sign-in process with added security and less waiting time, and enhanced simple slack link formatting for edited messages. They also made improvements to internal notifications for customer success, updated onboarding initial message, improved analytics to understand Axolo usage, asked for feedback if users speak about Axolo, and improved emails after customer plan updates. Lastly, they fixed a bug for enterprise customers on team channels management, resolved an issue where reminders were sent on weekends for specific timezones, allowed users to sign in when there are no organisations yet, and resolved a bug while unarchiving a PR channel.